California Poppies

We're buying a house.  Today the realtor brought over some flowers from a florist.

I just noticed something odd.

It's not that "artificial" flowers are getting more like "real, cut" flowers.

It's that "real, cut" flowers are getting more like "artifical" flowers.

I'm a big fan of "mash-up", but I think this commercial flower breeding has gotten a little out of hand for my tastes.

Don't get me wrong, these flowers are beautifully engineered and have del.icio.us colors.

But, I'll take a wild flower over this any day.  Here's why...

Addendum: I got a little carried away with the zoom and it got a little out of control. The ending is a bit abrupt, but at least we added music from archive.org. 

Attribution: Beenoodle by Brett Edmonds, 2005.